
Netflix Orders New ‘Lonesome Dove’ Series From Zoe Kazan
Netflix has ordered a new Lonesome Dove drama series with Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart serving as co-showrunners, bringing Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Western novel to the streaming platform. Teton Ridge Entertainment will produce the series, which follows retired Texas Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call on a cattle drive from the Rio Grande to Montana. Key Takeaways Netflix has ordered a new Lonesome Dove drama series based on Larry McMurtry’s 1985 novel. Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart will serve as co-showrunners on the adaptation. Teton Ridge Entertainment will produce the series with Netflix. The story follows retired Texas Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call on a cattle drive from the Rio Grande to Montana. Executive producers include Teton Ridge Entertainment executives and representatives of the McMurtry Estate. Netflix Orders the New Lonesome Dove Series The Netflix Lonesome Dove series will adapt McMurtry’s 1985 novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The story follows Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call after their years as Texas Rangers as they set out on a final cattle drive across the American West. The journey begins at the Rio Grande and takes the two former Rangers toward Montana. The series will draw on the novel’s setting in the 19th-century American West and its ensemble of characters. Netflix announced the project on September 9, 2026, with Kazan and Stuart attached as co-showrunners. The announcement also confirmed Teton Ridge Entertainment as a production partner. The project gives Netflix another literary adaptation from Kazan and Stuart, who are also working together on the forthcoming East of Eden series. That adaptation stars Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist and is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on October 1. Kazan and Stuart said they were pleased to return to Netflix after their work on East of Eden. In






































